Nehemia 9:1

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Ratapan 2:10

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2:10 The elders of Daughter Zion

sit¹ on the ground in silence.²

They have thrown dirt on their heads;

They have dressed in sackcloth.³

Jerusalem’s young women⁴ stare down at the ground.⁵

27:30 They will lament loudly⁶ over you and cry bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;⁷

18:19 And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning,⁸

“Woe, Woe, O great city –

in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth –

because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”⁹